Mount Ness
| Mount Ness | ||
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| height | 1890 m | |
| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Batterbee Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 20 '18 " S , 66 ° 53' 41" W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Ness is a 1,890 m high mountain in Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Batterbee Mountains it rises 15 km northeast of Mount Bagshawe and 22 km east of the Rymill Coast on George VI Sound .
The first sighting of the mountain was awarded to the American polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth during an overflight on November 23, 1935. The resulting aerial photographs were used by the US cartographer WLG Joerg for mapping. A survey was carried out in 1936 by participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 1954 after Elizabeth Wilhelmina Ness (née Miller, 1881–1962), the first female councilor of the Royal Geographical Society since 1930 and sponsor of the British Graham Land Expedition.
Web links
- Mount Ness in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Ness on geographic.org (English)